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Deadpool, The Revenant, Zoolander 2 and more: The 10 best additions to BT TV this June

Goodness, are BT TV’s film offerings for June something to behold… The service’s movies on demand listings for the coming month include some of the biggest titles from the year so far, and feature some of the biggest stars on the planet. So what are you waiting for? Check out our top ten picks of the selection right here, right now.

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Deadpool (2016)

Using language and violence so brutal it would make Captain America squirm, Marvel‘s resident bad boy anti-hero isn’t holding any punches in this ruthless origin story. Former Special Forces op and cancer sufferer Wade Wilson receives treatment that transforms him into a super-healing, rage-filled vigilante on a war path as he hunts down the man who nearly ruined his life. Things are going to get very bloody.

Available to buy and own from 04.06.16

Available to rent from 06.06.16

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The Revenant (2015)

The two-and-a-half hour epic Western from Birdmandirector Alejandro González Iñárritu that finally won Leo that Oscar. This startlingly violent yarn follows a legendary frontiersman’s struggle for both survival and vengeance in the hostile American wilderness as he tracks down the members of his hunting team who left him to die and murdered his young son. Chilling in every sense of the word. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, and that bear.

Available to buy and own now

Available to rent from 06.06.16

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Concussion (2015)

Based on Jeanne Marie Laskas’s GQ exposé “Game Brain”, published in 2009, this sports drama follows a Nigerian forensic pathologist who fights against efforts by the United States’ National Football League to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy; a type of brain degeneration suffered by professional football players. Starring Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Albert Brooks.

Available to buy and own or rent from 06.06.16

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Dad’s Army (2016)

The beloved BBC sitcom about the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon gets a big screen makeover with a whole new cast and a much bigger budget. The story takes off in 1944, just after the events of the TV series, and involves the new additions of a glamorous journalist and a German spy. With The Importance of Being Earnest / St Trinians’ Oliver Parker in the director’s seat, we think it’s as smart and funny as the original. Starring Bill Nighty, Toby Jones, Michael Gambon, Mark Gatiss, Tom Courtenay, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Available to buy and own from 30.05.16

Available to rent from 13.06.16

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Trumbo (2016)

Austin Powers and Meet the Parents director Jay Roach takes a turn for the more serious in this Hollywood blacklist-era biopic centring around its communist-sympathising namesake – the industry’s highest paid screenwriter at the time, Dalton Trumbo – and how the House Un-American Activities Committee affected his career and family in the 1950s and ’60s. Read our full review here.

Available to buy and own from 13.06.16

Available to rent from 20.06.16

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A Bigger Splash (2015)

The latest English-language erotic-thriller from Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love), this sumptuous four-way study of sex and jealousy kicks off when a rock star vacationing on a Sicilian island with her boyfriend receives an unexpected visit from an old flame and his seductive daughter. Starring Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson.

Available to rent from 20.06.16

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Triple 9 (2016)

This unapologetically violent and thrilling heist movie assembles one heck of an ensemble cast in an Atlanta setting as a gang of robbers and bent cops embarks on a daring job for the ruthless female gangster holding them by the balls. Starring Kate Winslet, Casey Affleck, Gal Gadot, Woody Harrelson, Norman Reedus, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul…

Available to buy and own from 20.06.16

Available to rent from 27.06.16

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Movies don’t get much more fun (or silly) than this adaptation of the 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. Full of deadpan decapitations and please-don’t-get-blood-on-those costumes, the story follows five sisters in 19th century England who must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies. With Lily James, Matt Smith, Suki Waterhouse, Lena Headey, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, and Bella Heathcote.

Available to rent from 27.06.16

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How to be Single (2016)

Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Dakota Johnson takes on another leading role in this irresistible comedy in the same vein as Bridesmaids. Based on the novel of the same name, the story follows four single New York women who would rather be in committed relationships, but must learn how to be single in a city with ever-evolving definitions of love. Also starring Alison Brie, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann, Lily Collins, and Jake Lacy.

Available to buy and own from 13.06.16

Available to rent from 27.06.16

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Zoolander 2 (2016)

An assassin is targeting beautiful patrons of the Blue Steel look, and it’s up to Derek and Hansel to stop the worldwide conspiracy in this ludicrous sequel to the 2001 cult comedy. Watch it for Benedict Cumberbatch as an androgynous European model with no eyebrows, if nothing else. StarringBen Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penelope Cruz, Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Ferrell, Justin Bieber, Olivia Munn, and a whole lot more.